Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected president of France, announced the members of his cabinet Tuesday. The 22-person administration boasts equal parts men and women.

"It is a government of renewal," the president's office said in a statement to the New York Times. In addition to being gender-balanced, Macron's cabinet also includes a diverse set of appointees that lean politically left and right, and individuals from public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

The cabinet had their first weekly meeting in the Élysée presidential Palace in Paris today.

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In January, Macron showed his dedication to gender equality when he said in a speech: "Women currently represent 53 percent of the electoral body, so it’s unacceptable that they make up less than 30 percent of those elected to the National Assembly," he announced. "Unlike other political parties, we plan to respect gender parity."

However, despite appointing a gender-balanced cabinet, Macron was criticized for not taking his pledge to gender equality seriously enough. The New York Times reports the president didn't "give the person responsible for women’s equality a full-fledged ministry" and nominated "a lower-ranked state secretary instead."